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Food and Drink : A good range of restaurants is available, from inexpensive self-service establishments to fine dining eateries. Patisseries (cukrászda), serving cakes and pastries, and coffee shops (kavenas) are also popular. Gerbeaud's is probably Budapest's most famous coffee-house.
Things to know: There are no licensing hours. Minors are allowed to go into bars but will not be served alcohol.
National specialities:
• Halászlé (a spicy soup made with freshwater fish and paprika).
• Gulyás (Hungarian goulash is a hearty beef, capsicum and paprika soup; Western goulash is called pörkölt or tokány).
• Gundel palacsinta (pancake served with walnuts, raisins, lemon rind, chocolate sauce and rum).
• Paprikás csirke (paprika chicken).
• Kolbasz (sausage spiced with paprika).
National drinks:
• Tokaji (strong dessert wine).
• Bull's Blood (strong red wine).
• Pálinka (brandy) comes in barrack (apricot), szliva (plum) or cseresznye (cherry) flavour.
• Beer.
• Unicum (herb liqueur).
Legal drinking age: 18.
Tipping: 10-15% is expected in restaurants, bars, clubs, taxis and so on.
Nightlife : Budapest is the country's main nightlife centre with myriad clubs, bars, discos and casinos. It is also home to the magnificent Budapest Opera House, which stages regular performances. Although on a smaller scale, the nightlife in larger cities and towns like Debrecen and Szeged is also lively and during the summer months the popular Lake Balaton resort of Siófok has a buzzing nightlife. Cinemas in major towns show many films in their original language with Hungarian subtitles. Western Hungary in particular has a lot of very good wine cellars.
Shopping : Traditional purchases include embroideries, Herend and Zsolnay porcelain, wooden toys and national dolls. Hungary is also a good place to buy caviar, foie gras and Hungarian wines and spirits. Shopping hours: Most stores are open Mon-Fri 1000-1800 or 1900 and Sat 1000-1330. Shopping centres have longer hours and are open Mon-Sat 1000-2000; some are also open on Sundays. Food shops are open Mon-Sat 0700-1800.
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